February 7, 2018

Scrum or Kanban for Application Support teams?

Recently, there was an interesting problem posed on a project management discussion board. The questioner asked -
January 29, 2018

Scrum and Kanban Revisited

Introduction
January 21, 2018

How do you “do” Scrumban?

In a recent post on a technical forum, a Dev manager had the question (paraphrased here) - My organization wants to operate in a Kanban way but maintain the structure of sprints and burn down charts to keep track of progress. Is it ok to do? Is Scrumban the correct methodology? If so, what is the best way to implement it?
January 14, 2018

The Intrigue – and the Universality – of Kanban

It has been abundantly clear that in the last 3-4 years, the world of Agile has gradually come to be occupied by Kanban. While there has been a fair bit of the religious battle about Scrum vs. Kanban - which, while doing injustice to both Scrum and Kanban, has certainly helped to keep Kanban under the spotlight - the fact is that most consultants, coaches, and practitioners have been far more pragmatic and sanguine about it.
January 7, 2018

Top 11 Lean/ Kanban Books for IT, Software and Knowledge Work!

Are you new to Kanban? Or did you just build your first Kanban Board? Or already a Kanban expert? Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals.
August 21, 2017

7 Factors for running an effective Kanban Replenishment Meeting

In a blog post called Kanban Cadences, David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. Some of these were already identified in his original blue book, Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, some were identified later and put together in this post.
August 20, 2017

Portfolio Kanban for Enterprise Transformation

Solving the Insulation Challenge of Managed Transformation
August 17, 2017

ESP Compared to Kanban Method

David Anderson is a thought leader and pioneer in the field of Lean/ Kanban for Software Development and managing effective software teams. (View David’s profile) We are honored to publish this blog post from David where he compared Enterprise Services Planning (ESP) with Kanban.
August 14, 2017

Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale - not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts.  Here are some interesting highlights from there.